And In The Category For Biggest Conspiracy Theory We Have....

Two and a half years after consistently and methodically exposing one conspiracy after another (and by the way, once it is proven to be a fact, it is no longer a conspiracy), we were stunned to find that the biggest conspiracy theory is none other than... Zero Hedge. "Zero Hedge, for example, is one that lots of hedge funds look at, lots of money managers look at, and the guy that runs it has their ear. Now I'm not saying that he is not doing his own proprietary work, but, people like to plant stories in there. [cue ominous silence]." TA DUN DUN.

Also, to anyone who still doesn't get it, please send your dodecatuple secret "plant" stories to plant@zerohedge[.]com along with your payment made in physical gold Zimbabwean dollars, to be delivered to our paper street headquarters. We certainly would prefer it if the drop man is Bank of America's James Mahoney.

I've always wondered if there was a connection between ZH and Eric Sprott? ZH seemed to be a major participant in the Great Silver Pump of 2010, just as Sprott was starting PSLV. Now, as the NAV premium seems fairly well maxed and Sprott's been dumping shares, ZH doesn't do many silver articles anymore. While silver is still north of $40, the interest in pumping silver just doesn't seem to exist anymore. Very curious.

And all this time I thought Bankrupt of America had problems. Now I find out you guys have been picking on them without mercy. It worked so well, go after Exxon Mobil. A rumor campaign that they are insolvent would really get some traction.

The whole fucking system is bankrupt, corrupt and collapsing. This asshats will still be talking about the "recovery" when the lights go off in their studio. In the meantime, their big boss, Imelt, ships GE medical imaging headquarters and R&D labs to China.

Precisely, Watson. What is amiss is exactly that the dog did not bark.

So telling, Dr. Freud hisself speaking. The dweeb who brought it up, the "plant stories there" routine, did so whilst looking down to his left, cut the statement off abruptly in a manner similar to a clearing the throat and nervous hand needed an idle movement as in to the knot of his tie and displays a blanched micro expression. Simple visual clues from basic forensic assessment interview and integrated interogation techniques.... Made the shit up out of thin air.And was wary of being called on it.

Pwned, asshole.You read it here on ZeroHedge.

Which we all know you'll read after being cited herein.How ya gonna face your friends now?

Truth be told, I was eBUI last spring and picked up another 65 ozers at ~$35. I am not underwater on those either. Why don't you go back and join the Paulson support group at HuPpo? He needs all the love he can get.

It's very late in the game. Which is a takedown of the western economies and nation structures. While this in itself is nothing but a cycle, playing itself out, the environment the post war USA an western europe are being replaced with is nothing but a terrible empty wasteland of incompetence, paranoia and at the top psychopathic disregard of fundamental laws that rule this dimension. No self regulating capitalism in sight. Corporatism and dying consumerism as far as the eye can see.
To the trollish, to the pundits; the reason TD has an ear here is because he's fucking good. If he would make a mistake (which he occasionally does), he'd be corrected, challenged. Because we have no time for opinions based on the now pervasive, white-knuckled "group-think" that all will be ok as long as we repeat failed strategies ad nauseam. This is fight club and if you like to interdict something, anything (like the brave but foolish) mr. Fisher, you better have your facts straight, or expect to be slaughtered.
Silver is not high on the list here because of emotional reasons, and neither is Eric Sprott. He's just another fund manager. That he, and ZH are being attacked (on baseless rumours) speaks chapters about the business and intellectual climate in N-America: instead of everyone minding their own store and competition based on offering a different product than the other guy, there's now the "us versus them" paradigm prevalent. Words like "conspiracy" fit right in there. And instead of looking forward, and let the market take care of obsolete dinosaurs, "9-11" is wheeled out again, now with "exclusive interviews" of the man that "made it all possible", the one that actually failed to do his job.
Accountabillity, or the lack thereof is what's driving individuals, funds, dictators and central banks into gold. Silver is more complicated, since there are a miriad of reasons for it to be valuable, now and in the near future. More than the IQ points of the guy that wrote the quoted article no doubt.
Oh well.... These clowns will be bankrupted and discarded for the useful idiots they are, and no one will really care.

Hey, Tyler, can we push the meme that Jude Law has cancer? Just for the hell of it. I'd also really like it settled whether Dave Letterman is wearing a bad toupee or not. It's been too many years of wondering.

Are all of you idiots?!!! Tyler is merely making fun of the fact that others would try to discredit his exposing of the "dark side" by implying that he(s) working for the dark side. Nothing has changed. The info has the same spirit of truth. Why do I need to even write this?! The whole point of the story is to mock the idea that the Tylers have been compromised (I've been here for two years Tylers, will you please at least pop my Tyler response cherry with a concise confirmatory reply please so the crazy thoughts subside?!) . . .

From the video: "Where's there's smoke, there's fire." Couldn't have said it better. In the last few minutes these folks did more damage to BofA than Blodgett could have done if he tried. Just because one has the platform of lie ...oops, I mean live... TV doesn't mean that facts aren't facts.

So he says we know where the money comes from and then when asked to elaborate he says people plant stories there? Non sequitor. That guy was incoherently reciting talking points someone gave him. They need a disclaimer at the bottom of the screen "Watching CNBC is harmful to your net worth."

bac is about to go down hard and drag our freedoms kicking and screaming along with them if we dont spread the word about this it could really happen.

Courts, however, appear to be operating as intended and not lettling bac off on robo~signing thing so easy. Bac is going bankrupt where it deserved to be two years ago. Goldman should be treated diffrently, bc nobody ever did it better here in the States than Goldman. GS is our best and brightest i got money says GS beats Barclays in a sword flight

I'm referring to the daily articles from the summer of 2010 to about April 2011, where ZH seemed to be endlessly pumping silver and anything associated with Sprott. Of all the articles about silver (surely hundreds of them) find one, ONE, that is favorable to SLV.

Instead, you'll find all sorts of pro-Sprott stuff, and some unfounded accusations about how SLV is full of chicanery. One fund trades an average of 43M shares per day, while the other trades about 1M shares/day. Which fund do you think is more susceptible to mispriced "chicanery?"

In all fairness I've not seen any real evidence that the silver is not where it should be, but JPM is the one 'safeguarding' it so in my opinion the suspicion has some merit. I'm willing to play SLV for a week or two but not long term. At very the least I worry about getting cooties from being too close too long.

Obviously, if you listened carefully to the video, the CNBC brass have bought into the "Google" idea that the main Tyler Durden is Daniel Ivandjiiski. The reference to "banned trader" obviously coincides with this idea. I, for one, hope that Daniel, as he claims, is merely a secondary "Tyler:" because I love the idea of anonymity and hope the true force(s) behind this site remain(s) beyond reproach or assail . . .

Tyler as Sprott though, I like that. Sprott doesn't drink as much coffee as Tyler...

No. No. No. I never thought Sprott is Tyler.

I was just questioning whether Sprott conspired with ZH to pump silver - that's all. Seems like a reasonable question given the endless pumping of a low volume, brand new, unproven, over-priced etf. Sprott needed to make sure people would show up and bid when there's a perfectly legit behemoth like SLV sucking up all the volume. The only logical approach to lure investors away was to create fear and hysteria about SLV.

Fringe blogs without fact-checking departments was the perfect mechanism to do that.

Why are you wasting your time on a "fringe blog"? Perfectly legit? I find it a stretch of my credulity to find anything that is controlled by the TBTF's as "perfectly legit". May I ask what your interest is in building up SLV and tearing down PSLV? Again, I own positions in neither nor do I plan on owning either in the near term.

If I wanted a silver ETF I think I would go with darn near anyone before trusting JPM as custodian. There are other solid silver backed funds out there other than PSLV that I would buy long before I would consider investing in SLV. That said the person who seems to have an agenda around these two ETF's is you.

Also ZH has always had the Caveat Emptor around "buying" into the info here. Everyone wants to abdicate responsibility for their own decisions now days, and if those decisions are stinky they are swept under the rug or smeared on someone else. No wonder we find ourselves where we do.

SLV's prospectus is full of loopholes says the author. Others have written the same thing.

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Stay Away From The SLV ETF

August 23, 2011

With the market in turmoil, the price of metals has seen a rapid rise as investors look for a safe haven to store their cash. Gold has been the most prominent metal and now currently sits near $1,900 an oz. Investors have been piling into the GLD ETF as the best and easiest way to get exposure to the metal. The managers of GLD have set up physical vaults of gold, which then back up the value of the shares. This creates stability and efficiency and is a great system.

Silver has also been a very popular investment, though not as quite as gold, since silver isn't necessarily seen as a monetary base for countries. The iShares Silver Trust (SLV) is the premier silver ETF for traders and investors. However, unlike GLD, SLV has some serious issues that everyone should take note of.

As posted before (to send all confusion to the dustbin, and establish a time line), NEITHER the trustee NOR custodian of SLV are judicially responsible for the amount and quality of the actual silver in the fund's holdings.
Caveat Emptor.

ZH has always had great respect for Eric Sprott--when silver was trading at $8 an ounce. Why does it take an old timer to set the record straight. I'm talking the fall of 2009 when I was living in Toronto and surprised to see such a great mind on Bay St brought to my attention by none other than ZH. You see, the blog has been around more than your little sample.

So shut the fuck up with your innuendo about Sprott and the Tylers. The Tylers respect certain money managers, others not, like ACKKKMAN and Paulson.

I'm not questioning whether Tyler has respect for Sprott. I'm just wondering if they were paid by Sprott or RBC or their agents to help pump PSLV. Even in their disclosure, they advise readers to assume they're pumping their book.

Max Keiser had a great line re S&P that applies here as well -- in this new reality, the King investigates the person who says he has no clothes, for having poor eyesight. I personally think most of the CNBC crew know the King is naked, but the King pays them quite well to say otherwise. Whores will be whores.

Nobody has to explain why AGW is wrong, AGW is a proposed theory, it is the proponets of AGW which have to back up their assertion, and in which they have not done, but have tried to replace science with things like "lets take a vote and see how many believe it"...of course which follows...consensus, consensus, consensus!!!! The world is flat we took a vote and that is science!!!!!!! the debate is over you rightwing inbred denier!

If it is not the standard that the proponent who makes up a theory has to support/demonstrate their theory rather than what you propose in which some jackass makes up a dumbass assertion and you are required to prove it wrong........ then prove me wrong that Obama is an alien from Mars, prove me wrong that the Beatles were really Chinese illegal immigrants that got some really awesome plastic surgery, prove me wrong that the smurfs were hired to plant explosives in the world trade center to bring it down, and prove me wrong that we must bailout all the big banks and corporations otherwise our world would fall into a black hole.....come on I am waiting, prove me wrong, what, you can't?, then of course your failure to prove me wrong proves my side....thats the logic and scientific method of this idiotic generation. Idiocracy, a great movie.....or should I say documentary.

AGW is attributing too much of the driving force behind rising temperatures to human activity rather than cyclical climate change, increased sun activity, or anything else.

While there is likely some support for human activity having some effect, the scale of human causal force is not determinable due to insufficient evidence.

Aside from the theory, the proposed solutions to AGW call for giving way too much power to the government and requiring far too much change to our modern lives considering the paucity of its supporting evidence.

Pardon my ignorance on this issue, but when you speak of AGW as being a cyclical phenomenon, what cycle(s) are you referring to? Because if you look at graphs of the concentration of CO2 molecules in the air, it has gone way up in the last 50 years. It's kind of like saying that gold's rise from $250 to the current $1850 is cyclical. Looking at the graph over the last 20 years, you would have the impression of slow exponential growth in the price of gold, not periodicity. So please back up your claim that AGW is cyclical with some actual cycles. Try to stay within the last 10,000,000 years ;)

I do understand about people trying to capitalize on AGW, but that's a whole other matter. My impression is that there is solid science behind AGW. You know that although science is subject to human corruption, it is far more "pure" than Wall St, and any behavior violates the community's canons of peer review, etc, is quickly noticed among scientists themselves who have no desire to see their work discredited due to some loose cannons firing. Note that Freeman Dyson believes in AGW, but he thinks it might be a good thing--at least he's not out there trying to discredit the theory, which he respects as being well-established. I recall Exxon Mobil doing its best to discredit AGW from way back at the time when I used to resonate with the editorials of the WSJ. Of course they only had the purest of motives, being but humble truth-seekers.

By the way, calling something a theory is not a negative--consider Einstein's General Relativity--nobody questions its results even though it is but a mere theory. But non-scientists like to jump on that saying "It's just a theory" and therefore not "the truth". That speaks to their ignorance. Some of these people who discredit AGW are only too happy to believe the world is 6000 years old.

Check out Anthony Watts over at WattsUpWithThat.com for a good look at the dissenting side. I find the articles intelligent and honest, to the point of actually posting the code for some of the contrarian simulations, but mostly they just take a hard look at the arguments and events of the pro-AGW crowd.

Actually, I find AGW to be one of the more devious conspiracies out there.

There is significant evidence of scientific fraud (Climategate, Gore buying a condo on the waterfront of San Francisco when he says the water level will rise 20 feet pretty much any day now, etc.)

It justifies a massive "New World Order" government that kills billions

When nothing happens at the end (no catastrophic sea level rise and so on) the survivors can be told the slaughter of billions and total enslavement saved the human race, sustaining the credibility of the thugs in power

It's rather elegant, really. I especially like the National Geographic article Watts found asking for nuclear war to create a dust cloud to cool the earth.

WUWT is one of the sites that I follow when I hear news of a controversial paper on AGW.... I also simultaneously read the comments at RealClimate.... From the comments you get to see the something resembling a real debate.

You will also note that the debate being hashed out at WUWT is not about GW, no credible climate scientist denies GW, but about AGW.

Read zh's disclaimer. they definitely don't any bones about intentional or unintentional persuasion/book talking. expect bias everywhere, and if the info on the site helps you, great. if it biases you into making some kind of sucker's bet, then you just gotta hold yourself responsible. trust noone!

Innuendo, half truths, no credible references to back up his claims. Yep, we do a conspiracy theorist on ZH. This one just dropped by to take a stinky dump on Sprott's reputation.

Here's the facts from the horse's mouth. KWN interview from back in early May.

With silver recently plummeting from $50 to the $40 area, today King World News interviewed Eric Sprott, Founder of Sprott Asset Management to clear up some misperceptions about Sprott’s sales of PSLV. There is a great deal of misinformation out there regarding what Sprott was actually doing when SAM sold some PSLV. When asked about what has transpired Sprott remarked, “Well Eric in response to your question, any proceeds that we’ve received from selling PSLV have immediately gone back into silver or other silver equities. And I can tell you we have the highest position in physical ownership that we’ve ever had, and we have not lost one ounce of our encouragement for the outlook for the silver price.”

No one is questioning why Sprott sold his shares. Everyone knows he's buying physical with it. If I could start a fund, convince a very small group of silver fanatics to overpay by 20% for the shares, I, too, would cash them in and buy physical with it. It's like getting physical for a 20% discount.

I love how you throw in a bunch of lies and then claim that no-one is questioning them.

I also love how you think you know more than the market. Let's see the big bucks you've made with all of your "insights".

Funny how you think that a "small group of silver fanatics" can somehow come up with $1.17 BILLION to throw it away on an overpriced silver fund. You know better than all the billionaires that Sprott personally brought in to the fund.

You "know" so much, yet you are so, so poor. Maybe it's not what you "know", but what you know that counts.

You know, its like a magician (money elite/bankers/fed/wall street/etc) wowing the crowd (sheeple/j6p/retirees/unemployed/etc) and there is this one smart kid in the audience (Tyler) that keeps pointing out all the tricks, exposing the magician, and ruining the show.

I know I am much better off for having found ZH almost two years ago. I actually feel ready/prepared for what is coming and am working on friends/family who do pay attention to what I say (as crazy as I sound).

History today will be hell to rewrite ... the future shall be interesting to say the least!

I crack up when that Karen parrot on Fast Money talked about Bank of America's next Q earnings release in October. They "ain't" gonna make it to October. The panel and CNBC sucks. Guy Adami is pretty cool but he was not one.